CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-27060
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thunderbolt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in tb_port_update_credits()
Olliver reported that his system crashes when plugging in Thunderbolt 1
device:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:tb_port_do_update_credits+0x1b/0x130 [thunderbolt]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x23/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4e0
? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? tb_port_do_update_credits+0x1b/0x130
? tb_switch_update_link_attributes+0x83/0xd0
tb_switch_add+0x7a2/0xfe0
tb_scan_port+0x236/0x6f0
tb_handle_hotplug+0x6db/0x900
process_one_work+0x171/0x340
worker_thread+0x27b/0x3a0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe5/0x120
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
</TASK>
This is due the fact that some Thunderbolt 1 devices only have one lane
adapter. Fix this by checking for the lane 1 before we read its credits.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.12)
• linux linux kernel 6.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/440fba897c5ae32d7df1f1d609dbb19e2bba7fbb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce64ba1f6ec3439e4b4d880b4db99673f4507228 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3d17e23d1a0d1f959b4fa55b35f1802d9c584fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce64ba1f6ec3439e4b4d880b4db99673f4507228 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3d17e23d1a0d1f959b4fa55b35f1802d9c584fa Patch